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From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Routing Hang on Boot
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 21:58:58 -0700
Organization: New Mexico Internet Access
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The most common cause of this is that you are setting up routes using host
names (like route add default router.my.net) but the name server (either
on your machine or another) isn't available yet.  So it sits there trying
to resolve router.my.net and takes a long time to time out eventually and
move on (it takes 60-70 seconds if I remember correctly). 


On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Peter Grigor wrote:

> I've noticed that my FreeBSD boxes tend to boot slowly on occasion.
> The problem begins when FreeBSD is adding routes from netstart.
> 
> On the ep0 (or ed0) entry, the default route and the multicast route 
> the system informs me that it is adding the route entries, but the 
> entry seems to take an unreasonable amount of time (~5 minutes!).
> 
> Anyone had this problem? Comments on the cause/solution?
> 
> Peter
> <^_^>
> 
>